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Northrop Grumman Plans Bid On $850 Million MDA Sim Framework

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Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

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By Ann Roosevelt Northrop Grumman [NOC] yesterday said it plans to bid as prime contractor in the competition for the potential $850 million Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Objective Simulation Framework (OSF), which is to integrate MDA's modeling and simulation architectures. Boeing [BA], meanwhile, said it is proud of its role in developing modeling and simulation for MDA. "We're very interested in the OSF opportunity and are considering all options at this point," James Schlueter, a Boeing spokesman, told Defense Daily.…

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